Comments for Bridging The Gap: Episode 2

WeirdGuy

29:50 T9s: I thought suited connectors are good hands to not fold your BB vs an EP open.

32:02 QJs: You said that sometimes you don't have a flatting range when on BTN vs CO. What about the times the CO is very aggressive and tries to steal with lets say more than 35% of his hands. Do you still don't flat? If not, isn't your 3bet way too high and therefore exploitable?

Carroters

29:50 T9s: I thought suited connectors are good hands to not fold your BB vs an EP open.

These hands make fine defends agaisnt UTG opens of a reasonable size and should be better than calling. I think I would also be flatting 98s and 87s, potentially 76s, so no it's not really the bottom of my flatting range, not sure why I said that.

32:02 QJs: You said that sometimes you don't have a flatting range when on BTN vs CO. What about the times the CO is very aggressive and tries to steal with lets say more than 35% of his hands. Do you still don't flat? If not, isn't your 3bet way too high and therefore exploitable?

Even if CO is very aggressive then I don't need to 3-bet so wide that I cannot defend myself to the players behind. The burden of defence is split between myself, the SB and the BB and the blinds have a larger share of it due to having better pot odds and less players to act behind them. I can widen up my 3-bets slightly and then just defend more of my range to cold 4-bets. I don't need to go crazy in such a spot unless I think it is safe to do so due to the blinds being nitty, then I can do what I want.

RickyRockett

For the Q7 hand in the BB when you were deciding if you should raise the turn. You said on the turn villain has 16 combos of K7 and A7, but since you hold a 7 he only has 8. You also said that he has 15 combos of Queens through Aces. I wasn't sure why you only chose those and didn't include all of the other over pairs (88-JJ) which would then give him 39 combos. Would this sway you decision to more of a raise then check on the turn?